Treatment of Bronchitis - Why Doctors Prescribe Ineffective Antibiotics
Though the first vaccine was administered in the early 18th century, and the virus was discovered and named in the late 19th century, medicine has yet to find a way to effectively cure a patient once he or she is infected with a virus. Twenty-first century doctors essentially treat most viral infections that same way doctors always have: by making the patient feel as comfortable as possible until the immune system heals the patient by itself. In way, that is as it should be. The human immune system is simply more powerful and efficient than anything medical science has ever devised.
However, far too often, doctors prescribe antibiotics for conditions that are most likely viral. Very commonly doctors will attempt to treat bronchitis with antibiotics, even though multiple studies have suggested that antibiotics are ineffective. This has been an ongoing problem, even though any first year medical student knows that antibiotics are designed to treat bacterial infections, not viral. Fortunately, there have been numerous reports demonstrating how true colloidal silver fights infection.
Why do such highly trained men and women error so constantly in the treatment of bronchitis? The answer is many fold. Firstly, a small minority of bronchitis cases involve a bacterial pathogen. So when a doctor, knowing this, observes bronchitis symptoms, they may “suspect” for whatever reason that this particular bronchitis case is being caused by bacteria, and proceed to prescribe antibiotics. And if in the (very likely) instance it is actually viral, the patient takes antibiotics for nothing, while possibly subjecting themselves to unpleasant antibiotic side effects in the process. Secondly, doctors may feel pressured by their patients to issue a prescription. Many patients have been trained by pharmaceutical ads to believe that there is pill for every ailment, and may have a tough time accepting that the only thing the doctor can do is alleviate the symptoms. It may be difficult to believe that medical professionals would allow themselves to be bullied into giving ineffectual prescriptions in this way, but this strange phenomenon has been documented in medical studies. A study that dealt with the over prescription of antibiotics for bronchitis titled “Azithromycin for acute bronchitis” published in 2002 in the prestigious medical journal “The Lancet” stated that “Many patients with acute bronchitis require their physicians to ‘do something.’ “ The same study stated that doctors should not treat bronchitis with the “defensive use of ineffective antibiotics.”
So if nothing a doctor can prescribe can deal with the root viral cause, what can one do? Many have found that simply taking care of one’s immune system is an effective way to deal to with bronchitis. Countless people have testified upon the effectives of one supplement in particular: colloidal silver. Colloidal silver can be taken orally, but many have claimed success in fighting bronchitis by taking colloidal silver through a nebulizer. A nebulizer is a medical device that would allow someone to inhale the colloidal silver in a mist form. This may be more effective because the supplement is therefore being applied directly to the infected area.